Marlon Brando Quotes

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.

Marlon Brando

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

Marlon Brando

If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle.

Marlon Brando

Acting is the least mysterious of all crafts. Whenever we want something from somebody or when we want to hide something or pretend, we're acting. Most people do it all day long.

Marlon Brando

You are very attractive, but the coat you're wearing makes me think you are either a very rich woman or a very rich man's mistress.

Marlon Brando

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

Marlon Brando

Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.

Marlon Brando

Even today I meet people who think of me automatically as a tough, insensitive, coarse guy named Stanley Kowalski. They can't help it, but, it is troubling.

Marlon Brando

Chaplin you got to go with. Chaplin is a man whose talents is such that you have to gamble. First off, comedy is his backyard. He's a genius, a cinematic genius. A comedic talent without peer.

Marlon Brando

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.

Marlon Brando

Acting is the least mysterious of all crafts. Whenever we want something from somebody or when we want to hide something or pretend, we\'re acting. Most people do it all day long.

Marlon Brando

Privacy is not something that I’m merely entitled to, it’s an absolute prerequisite.

Marlon Brando

This picture will try to show the Nazism is a matter of mind, not geography, and that there are Nazis and people of good will in every country. The world can't spend its life looking over its shoulder and nursing hatreds. There would be no progress that way.

Marlon Brando

There's a line in the picture where he snarls, "Nobody tells me what to do." That's exactly how I've felt all my life.

Marlon Brando

I don't think I was constructed to be monogamous. I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed.